out and about - 2016
25 February 2016 .............. Ganavan again
Back at Ganavan again, but with very different weather - a dense layer of cloud was hanging over the whole sky, so there was almost no colour, but there was still very good visibility across to Mull, with the the white snow against the grey cloud emphasising the mountains.
A bit later, and I am up the hill again, and a bit of sunshine broke through the cloud and lit up a Cal-Mac ferry heading down the Firth of Lorne.
I am not sure, but it could be the Oban - Lismore ferry.
It isn`t the most striking of pictures, but it shows up rather nicely the effect of colour temperature - the white superstructure of the ferry is getting a warmer colour temperature from the sun than the colour temperature of the clouds which are lighting the snow on the hills.
It isn`t standing out too well, but it was nice to see Ben Cruachan free from cloud.
A closer look to the left shows a thick layer of dense low cloud hanging over the upper reaches of Loch Etive.
In the opposite direction, and a long view of the two headlands Rubha Fion-àird and Rubha Garbh-àird which lie over the other side of Ardmucknish Bay.
I discovered to my cost a few years ago that there can be a surprisingly strong tidal current between Rubha Garbh-àird and Eilean Mòr at the mouth of Loch Etive - it is I think due to two things.
Firstly, around the Firth of Lorne there are a lot of places where the strongest current flow is in the first two hours after slack water, this is for both the flood and ebb tides. The current then slows down for the next four hours or so.
Secondly, slack water within the outer reaches of Loch Etive is two hours after slack water outside Loch Etive - so for the first two hours of the flood tide in the Firth of Lorne you get the strongest current flowing north, and at the same time you get the ebb current still flowing out of Loch Etive.
And no, you can`t paddle against it !
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